| Date |
Assignment |
| January 6 |
Course Introduction |
| January 8 |
Whitman, Leaves of Grass (meet in 3154
Angell)
Poems: "One's-Self I Sing" (starts on page 1), "As I Ponder'd in
Silence" (1), "To Foreign Lands" (3), "To a Historian" (3), "When I Read
the Book" (6), "To the States" (7), "On Journeys through the States" (7),
"I Hear America Singing" (9), "Song of Myself" (22), "Songs of the Open
Road" (119), "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (128), "With Antecedents" (194),
"Unnamed Lands" (299), and "The Sleepers" (338).
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| January 13 |
Amasa Delano’s Chapter XVIII (pages 199-229)
Melville, “Benito Cereno" (pages 34-102)
(both texts in Melville's Short Novels) |
| January 15 |
Melville talk (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| January 20 |
Ellison, Invisible Man (pages 3-230) |
| January 22 |
Ellison talk (pages 231-295) (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| January 27 |
Ellison, Invisible Man (pages 296-512) |
| January 29 |
Ellison talk (pages 513-581) (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| February 3 |
Welch, Fools Crow (pages 3-202) |
| February 5 |
Welch talk (pages 207-256) (meet in Chemistry 1200)
Check out the great supplementary information
Professor Faller gave to us! |
| February 10 |
Welch, Fools Crow (pages 257-284) |
| February 12 |
Lone Star talk (meet in Chemistry 1200)
Essay #1 due at the beginning of class |
| February 17 |
Welch, Fools Crow (pages 289-391)
Integration and Interrogation |
| February 19 |
Exam #1 (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| February 24 and 26 |
"Spring" Break |
| March 2 |
Kingston, Woman Warrior (pages 1-160)
Check out an interview
with Maxine Hong Kingston published in the Progressive (February
2004) |
| March 4 |
Kingston talk (pages 163-209) (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| March 9 |
Mukherjee, "Jasmine" (read the short
story before the novel)
Mukherjee, Jasmine (pages 1-189) |
| March 11 |
Mukherjee talk (pages 190-241) (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| March 16 |
Santos, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
(pages 1-217) |
| March 18 |
Santos talk (pages 218-282) (meet in Chemistry 1200) |
| March 23 |
Jen, Mona in the Promised Land (pages 3-215) |
| March 25 |
Jen talk (meet in Chemistry 1200) (pages 219-304) |
| March 30 |
Kushner, Angels in America (pages 1-182) |
| April 1 |
Kushner talk (meet in Chemistry 1200) (183-280)
Essay #2 due at the beginning of class |
| April 6 |
Morrison, Song of Solomon (chapters 1-5) |
| April 8 |
Morrison talk (meet in Chemistry 1200) (chapters 6-9) |
| April 13 |
Morrison, Song of Solomon (chapters 10-12) |
| April 15 |
Morrison talk (meet in Chemistry 1200) (chapters 13-15) |
| April 20 |
Exam #2 |
| April 26 |
Essay #3 due by 4:00 pm (place TBA) |